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June gardening with Central Landscapes
26 June gardening with Central Landscapes Silverdale
Best June Tip: Tread lightly – the garden is becoming wetter and colder, so walking over soil will only compact it.
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What to do in the veggie garden in June
• Plant garlic – garlic is easily grown in containers or in a sunny, well-drained part of the vegetable garden. Garlic from the garden centres is free of imperfections and will grow a healthy crop. Gently separate the cloves out without damaging, (or plant the whole bulb) pointed end up, 5-10cm deep. • Bright spot – coloured chard or silver beet looks amazing in winter and you can still plant now. Even the stalks are great to eat! • Winter herbs – bushes of rosemary, bay and plants of winter savory or culinary thymes can be planted. These are hardy perennial herbs that add flavour to winter dishes. • Edible colour – a winter favourite for the garden is calendula – flowers of bright yellow and orange.
The flower garden, cheap and cheerful – it’s bargain plant time!
• Free plants – lift and divide large clumps of hardy, now dormant, perennials such as hostas, delphiniums, stocks and perennial grasses and replant, making sure you have a good root section on each division. • More free plants – check your garden for new seedlings of hellebores, euphorbias, honeywort etc and make sure you plant them in a desired situation, avoiding something growing beautifully in the wrong place next summer! • Still bulb time – you haven’t missed out – raid the half-price bulbs bins at the local garden centre and chuck tulips and hya cinths in the ‘fridge for a few weeks. Being in the warmer part of New Zealand, you can have a bulb planting fest on Queen’s Birthday weekend! • Potted colour at around $1-$2 a plant is pretty hard to beat. Now is perfect for planting primulas, polyanthus and baby cycla men.
Just because it’s winter, it doesn’t mean the gardening stops.
Whether you are winter gardening, planning for spring, or designing, we’re still here 7 days a week. Same hours, same great team. Plus with our concrete yard you and the products won’t get muddy!
